Jason Hunter wrote:
>
> Craig R. McClanahan wrote:
> > As David points out, though, ServletContext.setAttribute() is
> > designed for sharing global data for the same servlet, or for
> > different servlets. The servlet context also serves as the
> > "Application" scope in JSP, for the same reason.
>
> One thing I miss with ServletContext.setAttribute() however is the
> ability to easily have different data kept per registered servlet
> name. For example, with JWS if you have a counter servlet
> registered as "counter" and registered also as "howmany" you will
> have two instances created, one per name. Maintaining a separate
> count for /servlet/counter and /servlet/howmany is trivial -- just
> use instance variables to keep the count.
>
> To do this using setAttribute() is far harder. You have to come up
> with a way to encode your registered name in the context variable
> name to keep the values different. And coming up with your
> registered name isn't always possible. You can try getRequestURI()
> but that will fail with prefix- or suffix-mapped servlets.
What's needed then is ServletContext.getName() method that returns the
registered name.
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Hans Bergsten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gefion Software http://www.gefionsoftware.com
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